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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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554<br />

The deity of the double axe<br />

cula or portable shr<strong>in</strong>e with an Egyptian cornice : he holds a double<br />

axe <strong>in</strong> his right hand, a hdrpe <strong>in</strong> his left, and is flanked by the fore-<br />

parts of two bulls.<br />

When the Bronze Age passed <strong>in</strong>to the Iron Age, the '<br />

M<strong>in</strong>oan'<br />

Kronos was succeeded by the Hellenic <strong>Zeus</strong>—a succession facili-<br />

tated by the similar character of the two gods. O. Gruppe' po<strong>in</strong>ts<br />

out that Kronos, like <strong>Zeus</strong>, was worshipped on mounta<strong>in</strong>s, many<br />

heights <strong>in</strong> Greece^ Libye, Italy, Sicily, and the west' be<strong>in</strong>g<br />

( = niy fig. 431) Elagabalos, p. 138 pi. 17, lo ( = my fig. 432) G'allienus, Head Hist, num?<br />

p. 794.<br />

^ Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 1105 n. i.<br />

^ (i) To the north of the Altis at Olympia rises to Kp6ctoJ' ^6po%) (F<strong>in</strong>d. 01. i. iii,<br />

6. 64, Nem. 6. 63, Xen. Hell. 7. 4. 14, Diod. 15. 77, Flout, de fluv. 19. 3, Paus. 5. 21. 2,<br />

6. 19. I, 6. 20. I, cp. Anth. Pal. 12. 64. 2 (Alkaios Mess.) where Salmasius cj. oXizuvi^...<br />

virb "Kpoviip for alirivrn...vTro Kpovla cod.), otherwise called 6 Kpdi'tos X60os (Dion. Hal.<br />

ani. Rom. i. 34, et. mag. p. 426, 20 f.) or the like (F<strong>in</strong>d. 01. 8. 17 Trap '^pbvov \64>(i}, 10.<br />

49 \<br />

f. Trdyov<br />

Kpdvov,<br />

11. 25 Trap' €i)5^i'5py...ox^v Kpduov), on the top of which the Bastiai<br />

offered sacrifices to Kronos at the spr<strong>in</strong>g equ<strong>in</strong>ox <strong>in</strong> the Elean month Elaphios (Paus. 6.<br />

20. 1, cp. Dion. Hal. ant. Rom. i. 34). (2) Ptol. 3. 16. 14 with schol. ad loc. mentions<br />

a Yipbviov <strong>in</strong> Lakonike. (3) Bekker anecd. i. 273, 20 f. 'E.pbvi.ov ri)xe.vo%- rh irapa to vvv<br />

'0\v/j.Tnov fJ-^xp'- 'o'' MtjTpi^ov tou eV dyopg. (leg. iv "Aypq. or ec "Aypas : see C. Wachsmuth<br />

Die Stadt Athen im Alterthum Leipzig 1874 i. 227, id. <strong>in</strong> Pauly—Wissowa Real-Etic.<br />

1. 888). (4) P. Chiotis Icttoplko, 'AironvrjixovevfxaTa ttjs vqaov TjaKvvdov KepKvpq, 1849 i. 15<br />

(cited by M. Mayer <strong>in</strong> Roscher Lex. Mytli. ii. 1485) speaks of (XKdireXoi Kpdvioi <strong>in</strong> Zakynthos.<br />

^ Lyd. de mens. 4. 71 p. 123, 7 ff. Wi<strong>in</strong>sch 6 5^ Kpdrjjs (C. Wachsmuth Be Cfatete<br />

Mallota Lipsiae i860 p. "ji frag, sedis <strong>in</strong>certae 9) tov Kp6voi> jrarpt<br />

Kal aiiTov fjih ei's icxo-Tov iXdaai. ttj^ dvaeojs, rmepwTaTa 5e ttjs ^aaiXeias avTiXa^eaOai, Kai<br />

5ia TovTo TLp.7)dyivai. ujs Qeov, 4. 154 p. 170, 6 ff. Wi<strong>in</strong>sch Kal ^aaiKevcraL di avTov {sc. Kphvov)<br />

i] IffTopia Tra bidwaiu, < ws ^fxirpoxrdev aa i] laropla Kara Tbv ^vrj/xepov (G. Nemethy Etihemeri reliquiae<br />

Budapest<strong>in</strong>i 1889 frag. 10) irotKiW < erai, (c.r.X. >, Diod. 3. 61 Swaa-Tevcai 5e

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